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Re: OT: Win2000 partitions
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:43:50 -0500
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At 11:28 AM 12/8/2001 -0500, Pete Osborne wrote:
>On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:01, Tom Brandt wrote:
> > I have seen Partition Magic clobber people's partitions, so be careful when
> > using it. Back everything up. (or, since we're on an a grammar kick, back
> > up everything)
>
>I've had it create some pretty quirky partitions with win98. After, making
>the changes and installing Progeny Linux, it would not mount the windows
>paritition for some reason, I couldn't get it to work until I compiled a 2.4
>kernel. (and yes, the fat32 driver was loaded)

In one case I saw, someone tried to repartition some logical drives on a
Win2K machine. The partitions were ntfs. Every single file on one of the
drives was gone after Partition Magic was done.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
313 N. 1st Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.northtech.com/

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